Big and Small

The human body is just about the most complex thing on this planet, and many times more complex than anything he can build. That may soon change, of course, but most reading this will not live long enough to see it. But there is something that is more complex than that, and it is said by some that it is the most complex thing in the known universe. Perhaps, but it can't be verified of course.

The human body is finite and quantifiable, of known size, shape, function, longevity and many other things like that. And, it can be mapped into words and diagrams filling tens of thousands of pages in books, and now webpages, so that everyone on the planet who can read, can, at their leisure, read all about it! But, it is not the human body that is doing that, or understanding all that of course, it is that other thing.

The human mind is infinite and non-quantifiable, of unknown size, shape, function, longevity and everything else one could mention here. And therein lies the mystery that has captured humans from their first day here even until today. We are quite literally no closer to understanding the mind than our ancestors were many thousands of years ago. Babies, who have just learned how to talk, and communicate fairly intelligible passages to other babies. But of the mind, we know almost nothing at all.

The Human Species - We Are - the sum total of our ancestors before us, embedded in our genetic code, the DNA. All that they were then, we are today, and more. We are cave dwellers with fancier clothes and nicer haircuts who conduct ourselves in a way that is just a little more civilized than our earliest ancestors, but no where near as civilized as we WILL be many hundreds of years hence.

Thanks to the mind of man. And that mind, that infinite mind, is still evolving day after day, for 30,000 days in one lifetime, and 3,000 generations before that, and very likely - if the species does not obliterate itself, or the planet is not eaten by a large rogue body out there - for 3,000 generations into the future.

The Human Species is a Large Body of many parts, there is no denying that. But as large as it is, it pales in comparison to the infinite size and scope of just one Human Mind - yours, mine, or the other guys - not to mention the many billions of others that live here too. "What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you." - Ralph Waldo Emerson. It is larger in there than anyone can grasp, but that will never stop someone with the interest and desire to investigate and explore as much as they possibly can before they can no longer do that anymore.

That someone - you, me, or someone else - has possibilities that can not be known except by the ONE who realizes them, and lives them, and then a new possibility emerges.

That is, finding other similar creatures who have discovered they are on the Same Path, and have picked up many trinkets along the way, and are willing to share them.

That can be a strange and wonderful thing